By L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. What proportion of the women who remarry in their child- bearing years have children in the second marriage?

A. About half, say the statisticians.

Snowflakes are about 90 percent air.

Out of every 100 people who own dogs, seven throw birthday parties for said dogs, inviting other dogs. Or so reports a statistician with access to more information than I requested.

In an underwater dive, a duck’s heartbeat slows to half speed.

Can you both love and hate the same person at the same time? Pollsters say more women than men think you can.

Sir John Harrington invented the first valve-controlled water closet in 1596. Sir Thomas Crapper came out with his flush model in 1837. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow installed one in his home in 1840. Not until then did the public get interested. For 244 years, people suspected such an outlandish thing could never be clean enough for indoor use.

Q. Which river, next to the Amazon, has the most water?

A. The Congo complex. With about half as heavy a flow as the Amazon’s.